Biblical Genealogy of the Nations

Go to nearly any library that has genealogy books and you can find family
trees of many European royal families traced back to Noah. The most obvious
conclusion is that they have copied from the Scriptures or used creative
genealogy to raise their royal stature. However, as scholars have studied
many of them closely and compared the differences, omissions and additions
it seems quite evident that most of them have come from different source
documents of considerable antiquity. Below are two examples.

Fig 1

Fig 2

Recent research on the Irish genealogy indicates that it was originated before
400 AD, or before St Patrick "Christianized" the Irish country side.

And then
there is the oral tradition of the Miautso tribe of China shown below which
is very limited and with many obvious omissions, but the basic theme is the
same, it tends to verify the Biblical version. Note they even give a detail
not found elsewhere, in the name of Noah's wife, Gaw Bo-lu-en.

Fig 3

And then there is the Table of European Nations by Nennius. It was prepared
towards the end of the 8th century AD and was copied from many sources of
ancient antiquity. And here the story is the same, for there are many additions,
omissions and changes from other records indicating that the sources he copied
from were different from that of other records. See below.

Fig 4

Conclusion; Close analysis of many of the available records indicates that
either the people who compiled the records were very poor copiers, or validates
that the sources were from various documents of antiquity long since lost and the
underlying theme is that they tend to verify the records of the Scriptures.

A recent study carried out by an international team of researchers provides
powerful evidence of the Biblical account of the descent of both the Jewish
and the Arab peoples from one father, Abraham, per Genesis 16-25. The team
compared a special region of the Y chromosome (the non-recombining region) from
1371 males. Test subjects were from 29 subpopulations of Africa, the Middle East
and Europe. Seven Jewish groups and 22 non-Jewish groups were included. The seven
Jewish groups (Ashkenazi, Roman, North African, Kurdish, Near Eastern, Yemenite,
and Ethiopian) had the highest degree of genetic similarity even though they
were the most geographically spread out. Indicating that they all emerged from
a single ancestral population. The Syrian and Palestinian populations also
had a very close genetic similarity to the Jewish populations and then Saudi
Arabians, Lebanese and Druze populations were next closest genetically. The
results of the study were totally consistent with the Biblical account of
Abraham being the father of the nations of Israel through Isaac and the
Arab nations through one father, Ishmael.

Recent genetic studies indicate that at one or more times in human history
only a very small portion of people were the genetic source, consistent with the Scriptural
genealogical records.

"indicate that the action of natural selection
against deleterious mutations has been relatively weak over the six-million-year
period. This suggests either that the human population has been through one or more
severe reductions, or 'bottlenecks', or that only a small proportion of people in
any given generation passes its genes on to the next generation – or both. Either
way, the effect will be to enhance random sampling effects at the expense of natural
selection. The effect of this may have been that, over the millennia, a large number
of slightly deleterious mutations have become fixed in the human population."
(from "Six million years of degradation",Macmillan Magazines Ltd 1999 - NATURE
NEWS SERVICE, http://www.nature.com/nsu/990204/990204-2.html)